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It looked like being tin-foil hat weather on Thursday...

Earth braces for biggest space storm in 5 years

Huge explosions on the sun’s surface are sparking the biggest radiation and geomagnetic storm that Earth has experienced in five years, according to space weather experts.

The storm, expected to hit Earth later today and last for around 24 hours, may disrupt power grids, GPS systems and satellites, and has already forced some airlines to change their routes around the polar regions.

Artist’s impression of sunrise on 9 March 2012. (NASA)

But by next day...

Space weather storm fizzles on arrival

A space weather storm that was forecast to be the strongest in five years has fizzled out and ended up causing no impact to power grids or modern navigation systems, expert say.

A series of eruptions on the sun this week sent radiation and solar plasma hurtling toward Earth at high speeds but, in the end, the geomagnetic storm registered the lowest level, G1, on a five-step scale.

It must be a thankless gig being a space weather expert.

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Back to profligacy

Yesterday morning I was extremely concerned there might be something, well, not right with the climate."

By this morning it would seem I was being somewhat of an alarmist.

We are now able to drive to the Fountain Gate Shoppingdrome without hindrance, so the world is again as it should be in the best of all possible worlds.

Humans: 1

Nature: 0

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End of times approaches

This is freaking me out.

The Telstra guy told us he’d never seen the intersection of Beaconsfield Ave, Kenilworth Ave and Soldiers Rd, Beaconsfield, under water in all the twelve years he’s lived in the district.

There’s something . . . um. . . not right with the climate.

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Extreme event warning: IG Miranda

After slamming into the northern Queensland coast, Tropical Cyclone Yasi seems to have triggered a related extreme event, Intemperate Grizzleguts Miranda:

“Anna Bligh makes a good news anchor”

This is thought to be the same IG Miranda that in 2006 wreaked the following in the wake of TC Larry:

“This is no New Orleans, so enough with the whingeing”

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Tri-Millennial event celebrated

It’s been asserted that the recent 15-day heatwave in Adelaide, South Australia, is only likely to happen once every 3,000 years.

Adelaide’s residents will now have something notable about their city to tell their grandchildren that doesn’t involve serial homicide.

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